Make Shift Floor Drain

[Bojans]

When we built our house the inspector nixed the idea of a floor drain, wasn't worth the argument to proceed (or so I thought). My garage is heated and attached to the house. When they did the concrete work they used form -a- drain for the footers throughout the garage and house and back filled with gravel. I am thinking of boring 3, 4" holes through the concrete and fixing some sort of filter to keep debris out. My thought is the water from washing cars will flow to the form a drain and get pumped out via the sump pump. I understand I will need to work the water into the drains but it is better than an ice covered driveway.

Any issues with this plan?

 

[fury9]

I'm not sure you would want all the garage floor water to just seep into the ground under your house? I don't like the idea of water in my garage either, I'll be keeping an eye on this thread.

 

[psychob0b1977]

Just an idea, but have you thought about putting a drain in front of the garage door to collect any water and stop it from leaving a sheet of ice on the driveway?

 

[theoldwizard1]

That form-a-drain product look cool !

If you are only talking about snow runoff water from washing cars you might be okay. As fury9 said too much water will flow through the gravel and possibly was the soil out.

The best thing would to get your drain to feed directly into the form-a-drain.

 

[KELLHAMMER]

Connecting a floor drain to a foundation drain is a big no-no

 

[goneflyin2002]

Connecting a floor drain to a foundation drain is a big no-no

Yeah!
It might run the other direction if the water table rises!

 

[theoldwizard1]

Connecting a floor drain to a foundation drain is a big no-no

I won't tell if you don't !

Yeah!
It might run the other direction if the water table rises!

If the water table rises that much he has bigger problems.

In theory, the sump pump is supposed to take care of that.

 

[bad_idea]

The reason the floor drain was denied by the inspector is to prevent leaking oil and other pollutants from getting into the ground water. Just saying.